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Remembrance event for 57 ex-pupils of Hunslet Carr School

David Dinmore, the Deputy Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Hilary Benn MP and Hunslet & Riverside Councillors joined about 60 local residents for a Remembrance event organised by Hunslet Carr Resident Association yesterday (13 November 2021). The event was organised to remember the 57 ex-pupils of Hunslet Carr School who died

Have your say on updated Dewsbury Road plans

South Leeds residents are invited to give feedback on updated plans for £13million improvements to develop one of West Yorkshire’s main travel routes. The route runs from Mirfield to Dewsbury to Leeds (referred to as M2D2L) encompassing the A644 and A653 and serves 600,000 local residents, as well as major

Young people help paint Hunslet Green clubhouse

Thanks to a grant from the RFL’s Created By Rugby League World Cup, work on Hunslet Warriors ARLFC’s new girls’ changing room at Hunslet Green has been moving ahead. Linking up with VIY (Volunteer It Yourself) local youngsters have been learning skills such as plumbing and carpentry, whilst gaining City

Council helps create green jobs in South Leeds

Twenty-six skilled jobs have been created locally in a key green industry as a result of Leeds City Council’s investment in low carbon upgrades earlier this year. Energy and water services company Cenergist has recruited thirteen full-time employees and moved thirteen existing staff to a newly opened office in Millshaw,

Celebrations as latest section of Dewsbury Road cycle route opens

The latest section of Leeds’s Dewsbury Road cycle route was officially opened yesterday (Wednesday 27 October 2021). The 1.5km section of new route between Garnet Road and Beeston Ring Road extends the existing segregated cycle lane on Dewsbury Road and will help connect more people with job, training, education and

Under Siege: Mafeking residents battle Airbnb “nightmare”

Residents of a Beeston neighbourhood are on tenterhooks, anxiously awaiting the outcome of a planning application relating to developments that they say have already ‘ruined’ their community – in a case that has considerable relevance to the wider public across south Leeds and beyond. The developers, for their part, claim